Independent Banker

JULY 2, 2022

L to R, Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson, FNB president/CEO Sam T. Just as much a part of western Arkansas history as its hometown, $1.84 Just as much a part of western Arkansas history as its hometown, $1.84 The clubhouse at the Jeffrey location, a community gathering place since 1978, was in dire need of improvements.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Speaking before Congressman Stephen Lynch of Massachusetts, senior member of the House Committee on Financial Services, and the rest of the committee, witnesses from the Fed and other areas of the payments community offered their support to FedNow — but not without caveats. Accessibility Beyond Big Banks.

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American Banker

JULY 22, 2020

Peoples Bank in Arkansas once used brokered deposits to fund more loans to underserved borrowers. It could do so again if Congress loosens restrictions, says CEO Mary Fowler.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2020

to ask for help or offer assistance to people in their communities by shopping at Walmart. . The initiative follows other efforts by the Arkansas-based retailer, including checking out with Walmart Pay and its contact-free, curbside pickup and delivery services. The collaboration allows Nextdoor members in the U.S. billion in revenue.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 28, 2020

The properties in Texas, Indiana, Alaska, Missouri, Georgia, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Arkansas and Tennessee will not be limited to curbside-pickup reopening like the ones happening in Texas, the report said. Ali Slocum, Simon’s vice president of public relations, did not respond to a request for comment from PYMNTS.

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American Banker

JUNE 10, 2021

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ABA Community Banking

JULY 31, 2019

Natalie Bartholomew is chief administrative officer at Grand Savings Bank in northwestern Arkansas, but she is probably better known for her popular blog "The Girl Banker," which provides advice on career advancement and work-life balance for women in banking as well as spotlighting female leaders in financial services.

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American Banker

DECEMBER 20, 2022

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American Banker

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The Arkansas bank said CRE is no longer its principal growth driver, yet it is still the bank's most prominent business and a big part of its robust lending activity.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2018

The social media company is striving to help gamers obtain fame and engage communities and followers across the Facebook, Instagram and Oculus platforms, with the goal of luring them away from YouTube and Twitch. Those competing services offer ad revenue, the ability to tip and other subscription and monetization opportunities.

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ABA Community Banking

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Homeownership, savings and holding down a job are three keys to financial well-being and moving out of generational poverty, so that's what Southern Bancorp focuses on in its home Mississippi and Arkansas Delta region, one of the nation's poorest.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

In Arkansas, Jim S. Its staff had about 40 people, many of its procedures were manual, and its competition was stiff with about five community banks as head-to-head rivals. If you don’t grow and expand your markets, then you’re going to have a harder time doing the things that community banks need to do.”. Jim Gowen Sr.

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American Banker

JULY 14, 2016

million in cash and stock for the $475 million-asset parent of Community First Bank. billion-asset Equity said in a press release Thursday that it will pay $68.8

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BankInovation

MARCH 9, 2023

Southern Bancorp’s innovation division is looking to gain a competitive edge against larger financial institutions by developing products specifically for the communities it serves.

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Jeff For Banks

SEPTEMBER 10, 2011

(Nasdaq: OZRK) of Little Rock, Arkansas Over a 100-year banking history, Bank of the Ozarks expanded from its headquarters in Little Rock, Arkansas, to more than 100 locations throughout the Southeast and is consistently ranked among the top performing banks in America (see chart). How did they grow so quickly?

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2018

The chain, born in Arkansas, has long served as a cultural, economic and even political signifier — telling others that one shopped at Walmart, or disliked its corporate policies, opened up a host of assumptions and judgements. For at least two generations, Walmart has stood for more than just retail.

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ABA Community Banking

AUGUST 30, 2017

Bank owned by Walton family to take out prominent bank in state Management M&A.

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American Banker

OCTOBER 3, 2016

billion-asset company disclosed in a recent regulatory filing that it has a letter of intent to buy an unnamed banking company in Florida with about $400 million in assets.

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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2018

Several of the nation’s largest operators, including AvalonBay Communities Inc., The retailer debuted the first of the self-service kiosks in the fall of 2016 in a Bentonville, Arkansas store. Amazon has reportedly signed contracts with apartment owners and managers representing more than 850,000 units across the U.S.

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American Banker

APRIL 22, 2021

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American Banker

APRIL 24, 2020

Johnny Allison, the Arkansas company's chairman and CEO, agreed to reduce his base salary by 20%.

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American Banker

JANUARY 5, 2024

Southern Bancorp in Little Rock, Arkansas, plans to put $250 million in equity capital it received from the Treasury Department to good use making mortgages and acquiring banks.

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American Banker

JULY 2, 2020

The Arkansas bank is selling its two branches in the state to Merchants & Marine Bancorp and FEB Bancshares.

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ABA Community Banking

DECEMBER 20, 2021

10-11, 2021, a violent line of tornados moved across several states, including Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Illinois and part of Missouri, leaving a 250-mile path of devastation in their wake. The storms destroyed homes and businesses, killing more than 75 people. Western Kentucky took the brunt of the damage. All too often, rural and [.].

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American Banker

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The Arkansas community development financial institution has an ambitious goal of making $500 million worth of mortgages in rural, minority and low-income neighborhoods.

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American Banker

JUNE 15, 2020

Peoples Bank in Arkansas and Main Street Bank in Massachusetts are getting smarter about spotting suspicious transactions tied to unemployment benefit fraud as well as warning customers what to watch out for.

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American Banker

JANUARY 31, 2022

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American Banker

DECEMBER 23, 2019

One found a buyer, another announced plans to retire, and others took steps to reinvent their banks.

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American Banker

JULY 16, 2020

The Arkansas bank is selling two South Carolina branches to a credit union just two weeks after announcing plans to divest its branches in Alabama.

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American Banker

JULY 22, 2020

Simmons First, which is based in Arkansas, plans to shutter 23 locations later this year, while Great Southern in Missouri has hired a firm to take a look at its network.

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American Banker

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Arkansas regulators have closed the $66.3 million-asset Allied Bank in Mulberry, the fifth institution to fail this year.

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American Banker

APRIL 22, 2016

plans to close 10 banks across four states by the end of the second quarter: three branches in Arkansas, four in the Missouri and Kansas region and three in Tennessee. Simmons First National in Pine Bluff, Ark.,

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American Banker

MARCH 21, 2016

A dozen banks from Arkansas to Virginia are nearing $10 billion in assets, where they will face higher compliance costs and caps on interchange fees. Mergers among those institutions could create a new class of regional bank.

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Jeff For Banks

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Last post was dedicated to the #4 Bank, Bank of the Ozarks of Little Rock, Arkansas (see post here ). This gives employees comfort in management consistency, management a deep understanding of bank operations, and customers comfort in seeing familiar faces at the bank and in the community. I will review my top five in descending order.

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American Banker

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Home BancShares in Arkansas would rather buy banks that meet its financial parameters than do one large deal to catapult over $10 billion in assets. The bank also spent most of this year idling with M&A so it could prepare for stress testing.

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American Banker

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Home BancShares in Arkansas would rather buy banks that meet its financial parameters than do one large deal to catapult over $10 billion in assets. The bank also spent most of this year idling with M&A so it could prepare for stress testing.

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PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2019

cities could compete, Walmart’s construction of a new HQ in Bentonville Arkansas has been a comparatively quiet affair. Our goal was not to extract things from the community,” he said. . While Amazon’s search of a new HQ location at some point became like a national edition of “The Bachelor” where only U.S. AI Enhancement.

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